No one who has not seen this spectacle of turbulent grandeur can conceive with what force the swift and overwhelming waters are flung upwards.
The Rapids above the Falls of Niagara.
Category: 1840
The Hudson River Palisades. Dramatic geological formations.
The Palisades are among the most dramatic geological formations in the New York City area.
The outlet of Niagara River from the American side.
American Scenery 1840. This view is taken from the American side, and presents the outlet of the waters of Niagara into Lake Ontario.
Historical Folk Costumes of the Balearic and Pitiusan Islands.
The costumes depicted here come partly from the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca, Cabrera), partly from the Pitiusas, which the most important is Ibiza.
Saboterie. Production of wooden shoes in Basse-Bretagne, 1840.
Production of wooden shoes in the Basse-Bretagne in 1840. View into the interior of a hut where a family lives together.
The Parisian Lady. La femme comme il faut. Honoré de Balzac
As the botanist detects among the hills and valleys some choice and unexpected prize, so you, amid Parisian vulgarities, have encountered a rare and exquisite blossom! It is the PARISIAN LADY!-the “FEMME COMME IL FAUT.”
Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.
Mexique No.15, AMÉRIQUE INDIEN DE CHAPULTEPEC (Environs de Mexico). Musée cosmopolite No. 249.
A peasant bride from Brittany in 1840
Peasant bride from Brittany in 1840
Students from Heidelberg, 1840.
Students from Heidelberg, ca. 1840. Romantic era.
Postilion and Innkeeper, Baden.
Postilion and Innkeeper from Baden, Germany. Around Kehl, ca. 1840.